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| From | yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions |
| Date | 2015-07-30 05:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <pRN10-3ho-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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> On Jul 29, 2015, at 18:34, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> wrote: >> >>> The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue >>> being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message >>> that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that >>> happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the >>> service partition is back again. >>> >>> The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we >>> get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume >>> it when the problem clears. >>> >>> We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported >>> from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> >> >> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as >> they are received. I presently have >> >> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> >> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> >> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> >> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> >> >> >> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler >> for the various trees. > i am curious why not make some tiny functions to be inline ? so that don’t need EXPORT_SYMOBLS , shrink the kernel size. Thanks-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-28 23:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 05:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 06:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 04:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> - 2015-08-03 04:50 +0200
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